GRE Word List
STAMP
to pound or crush with a pestle or a heavy instrument
The meaning of the word stamp is to pound or crush with a pestle or a heavy instrument.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| pliable | supple enough to bend freely or repeatedly without breaking |
| ignominy | deep personal humiliation and disgrace |
| psychosis | a serious mental illness (such as schizophrenia) characterized by defective or lost contact with reality often with hallucinations or delusions |
| tarantula | any of various large, typically ground-dwelling, hairy, mygalomorph spiders (family Theraphosidae) of warm regions that possess venomous fangs used to subdue and kill prey (such as insects, centipedes, frogs, and mice) caught by ambush or chase and that construct silk-lined burrows but do not build webs to trap food |
| berserk | an ancient Scandinavian warrior frenzied in battle and held to be invulnerable |
| legato | in a manner that is smooth and connected (as between successive tones) |
| refute | to prove wrong by argument or evidence : show to be false or erroneous |
| boisterous | noisily turbulent : rowdy |
| decant | to draw off (a liquid) without disturbing the sediment or the lower liquid layers |
| succulent | full of juice : juicy |